Research Catalog

Title

Prostitution, pornography and trafficking in women : Israel's blood money / edited by Esther Hertzog and Erella Shadmi.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Hertzog, Esther
• Shadmi, Erella

Description

x, 211 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This book critically analyzes the sex industry in Israel, using feminist concepts and scholarship to elaborate on the power of prostitution to shape a world in which women are objects for fulfilling men's desires. A comprehensive collection of research-based articles that examine prostitution, trafficking in women and pornography from divergent disciplinary angles, it reveals the interconnectedness of these three aspects of the sex trade which objectifies, commercializes and exploits human -- and in particular women's -- sexuality. Showing these practices to be embedded in a capitalist and patriarchal oppressive context that is accommodated by state institutions, this volume rejects the argument that it is possible to choose prostitution, and that feminist pornography is possible. With case studies including the conspicuous context of migration that attracts sex traffickers, the liberal discourse introduced by cinema, the media and the arts that serve to legitimate prostitution and pornography, the chauvinist-macho culture that perceives and treats women as sex objects, and the issues of male prostitution and men as clients, Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking in Women: Israel's Blood Money constitutes a study of Israel as a unique context in which the sex trade can prosper, in spite of geographical, religious and institutional constraints. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies and gender and women's studies.

Series Statement

Routledge research in gender and society ; 75

Uniform Title

Routledge research in gender and society ; 75.

Subject

• Prostitution > Israel
• Human trafficking > Israel
• Pornography > Israel
• Sex industry > Israel
• Human trafficking
• Pornography
• Prostitution
• Sex industry
• Israel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 19-7389

ISBN

• 9781138364585
• 1138364584
• 9780429431289 (canceled/invalid)
• 0429431287 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429775512 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429775529 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429775505 (canceled/invalid)
• 0429775504 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018043493

OCLC

1055572089

Title

Prostitution, pornography and trafficking in women : Israel's blood money / edited by Esther Hertzog and Erella Shadmi.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge research in gender and society ; 75

Routledge research in gender and society ; 75.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hertzog, Esther, editor.

Shadmi, Erella, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Prostitution, pornography and trafficking in women New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9780429431289 (DLC) 2018046773

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7389